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Hitler's "Pence"
WHAT HITLER cannot fathom. as he rauta and raves of the per- fidy of democracles who wage war on him, is that the entire world wants praer, We do not doubt but that Germanny wants peace, as Hitler deelnimed In his Danzig peech yesterday--but to him it must be a pence on his own terms,
some
young Britons doing their job
OME WHERE in Eng-
land I stood at sunset
pilot who four years ago was passing into the sixth form at a public school.
•
by-
VICTOR RICKETTS
ahooting any attempt to put them over as winged heroes. They aren't. They are ordinary young Britons wher come from the same sort of homes as the young men catching trains to the City evety morning. But their job is war flying arct sometimes the accidents do happen. That is inevitable when the toys they play with weigh tons and travel at mites a minule through this coun- try's mists and storms,
They are terze while on the job. Once 1 Bew with a fighter pilot at Jo.m. Far away to the south searchlights suddenly blazed
add
There
Over in circled a fight of three Hurricanes silhouetted | blackly against the sunset, In- alde each of the rumbling figh- tera ent a war-wise youngster rendy to slam his throttle widel open in parsult of raiding bom-spinning round a few feet either side He was fifty feet above them as they clustered excitedly round a cloud- bera.
of his bead. Behlid linna linns- motored past tila atrßeld when his bank. Into our earphones crackled parent turret was the gunner.
pláne · caught fire. Terrified they command from headquarters, "Get We two stood and fooked up at
Flying in the dark they hit un-saw his machine in Nomes from nosejover tomas soon as you can. the Alters. But rlween them fr plane. With his damaged to tall.
are two raiders over there,” earrlod enough bulleta ter 41 $10,000 BUmkine going steeply down out of He dropped to the rond Just In mrn, and the young mum with silver control to a certain crash Tom roared front of them, bounced as a ball of
UN textbook reply was, "Mes- wings on his chest and quiell" "No. “jump" to his gunner, hurled back fire into the next field and there! 1 ans but slying to-night. You are the elling roof over his cockpit and overturned. They were still in their taxi."
sage received and under- Kom going blind."
entapulted himself outwards,
motionless car, with rescue parties We htt Hallway out he thought of the tatil racing over the airfield, when Harry throttle to where the bombers had already going full It was evenly, with dew then, razor-edged at 250 m.ph, and appeared, black-faced, walking out been sighted, with their gun turrets niefelet grows, camouflaged ponen bicked himself out ever the wing as of the fames: Fle
dets not glittering in the searchlights. routeri onl. a mobile Beld kitêhen) far not he could.
know how he got out. "I just kicked! "Afessage As he sild off the edge into space hirit."
received with the fragrant stuell of hot ruffre, |
and under stood will be the last unemotional and for away, now, the drone of the the tail of the plane caught him aị I have just seen Harry with acknowledgment patrollinis filters,
dingcing blow. He
of with terfi
orders from erwaped
check. Over blue many of our flying automatons i bruises and dropped safely to a uniform is slong the hideour, dirty the enemy bombers ever really come feld
yellow anti-gas cloak. He is wall-to Britain again. outing for the telephone alarm call that I have just finished "writing this will bring him with his brother in a bomber squadron's mess. Rain Oghter pics racing into the airļis beating against the windows. plots are irresponsible young line shooter," he said, introducing me waiting for the word to send them
to his friends. " had a Rugner accident a few |
up raiding again. Take a look at Tom's room for
The radiogram is crooning reati- years nga, spot a klek on the back on insight into his character. There THIS article does not say the mentally When I Grow Too Old to of the head. That sturled $1
THE is the photograph of a pretty girl)
RAF. take thes lives in Dream." think."
on his dressing table. Among his their hands on every flight Bookshelf titles are "Inside Europe," not mean that our flying
It does. A fair-haired fight-lieutenant with men are the face of boy of nineteen-he
I and, "Oh." rather stupidly.
They've just takes me off ny eyes are going a bit dim. f'li be Tag, heard him say, "Roi my
able to see n .bit 1 Ilok, but fly- Inga Anised for me.
You hear things, quietly like
that, that beat the films. This one boy was until little while ago a pilot in a crack ghter squadron. It was his life and very nearly his death.
I
he said soberly.
The other chop didn't get
men?
that
on one
Do you think our war after raiding bombers. "Another Pilots are sprawling in armchairs
"Progress and Religion," "poems of real life editions of semi-hysterical commands a twenty-one-ton bomber Henry Kendall," "When We Were follywood test pilots who o up-häs just been discussing air tactles.
Young, Very
"Swimming the while men on the ground toss a coin American Crawl" and "History of to see if they will come back again, are the people who'll go first on both "When we really start fighting we Ancient Philosophy."
The R.A.F. casualty list, compared xides, the experienced pilots. We'll Two motorists can tell the story with 15urs ftown, is of an afternoon in the life of Harry, Europe's lowest. And very proper and then it will come down to you probably mop each other up in a few weeks Noaring along on night manoeuvres fler in the same squadron as Tom.the R.A.F. pilots consider he had the real-life nightmare of all
as line! people without much experience." who fly in the dark-Instantaneous engine. and complete breakdown of his
The work suspects, with goud reason, that the price of perce will be German hegemony In Europe. Czecho-Slovakia hua al- ready gone. Memetland is back in the fold. Poland is torn and shat tered, ready for dismemberment. It is all so very obvious that no nation is safe whilst this modern and lustful conqueror wields such power that, at a word of command, legions of machines and armed men will trample into the dust the independence of a free people.
Nothing new rises from Hitler's speech. What is chiefly significant is the fresh evidence that he cou tinues to be wedded to the method of the mailed fist. He could easily, [-ping" fighter-, with a kick to had he been so minded, driven triumphantly into Danzig after negotiation and without the atten- dant horror of force, which has claimed so many innocent Folish Jives.
At Ave milles a minute his enginee
started coming to pleces. Beneath were no lights, only darkness hkd- ing trees, edges, walls, rivers; all neck trying to land three tons of "the" necessary things 10 breakt~~hts|
steel at ninety m.ph.
Ile took the only WHY
oak, through the sliding root of the drop-|
carry himself clear as he fell into pace. Then the moment of sus- pense, wondering if the silken shrouds of the parachute would open. They did, with a jerk that meting body. knecked the breath out of his plum
"The Foreign Affairs
Committee Meet"
* THEIR} secrets are conveyed in cipher mes-
sogea carried from the distant em STATE nssies in the special Foreign Office
bags.
THEY MET AGAIN YESTERDAY NAMES ARE NEVER DIVULGED SECRETS IN CODE COME TO THEM. FROM EM- BASSIES ALL OVER THE WORLD REPORTS ARE LOCKED IN SPECIAL BOXES OF In the Communications Branch The fighters were out of sight and WHICH THE KING HOLDS ONE OF THE KEYS clats alone have the key.
"Don't you believe that stuff about With Hitler, menaces have becoming down like thistic-down." he come an, end in themselves and grinned. "You hit the ground with anything obtained without them is
a wallop." by so much less worth having. The manner of his aggressioni against Poland only makes it more obvious that, if Britain and France were to "call it off", new aggres- sions would be in store for each of his neighbours.
wo went to a hangar to collect myi own, parachute reaily to take otr whch our patrol time came,
Drake
or
Wellington would
THEIR
Extremely confidential statements re borne on the person of the mes senger himself or contained in a bag to which he and his immediate chlef of
the Foreign Office and very high off-
Opiniona and statements and re- YESTERDAY the Prime public servant he thinks should be ports are decoded by expert officials
Minister walked from consulted.
In the Foreign Office and the various abroad, But who is present 'will never bejembassies and legations approve tu-tlay of the average RAF his study to the Cabinet room at pilot.
publicly known. And it is imposs!-When a fair copy is made it is duly No. 10. Downing-street to pre-ble for the outside observer to dis-recorded and the document sent to
Poland is gone. Other eastern MEET another one. We will!
gised.
a bunch of nerves in a week. You ter is sworn to silence. Sometimesį seem to be rushing round all, the time doing a different day,"
Job
A
Three Defence Chiefs
European natione, particularly
A call him Tom. He is limp- side over a meeting of the For- cover, for there is more than one the high official concerned. In the way to the Cabinet room apart from case of grave matters like those now Rumanía and Hungary, will have
ing round now with bandages on his cign Affairs Committee of his the front door of the Prime Minis-at issue they would come under the cause for fresh alarm in the demise dying until next week," he apolo-
side and wrist. "Afraid I shan't be Majesty's Government.
ter's house.
immediate supervision of Sir Alexan- of their neighbour, just as tho
der Cadogan, the Permanent Under- The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary Christmas turkey who sees his,
question of Russia's Sir John Simon, himself a fefemer Affairs. The
for of State.
Foreign companions' heads go one by one
He was censoring my story before aggression against Poland came Foreign Secretary, who is invariably under the chopper dismally notes I telephoned it at midnight from the up for prolonged discussion, a consulted in questions of this kind, Messengers to the King that each time a head is chopped pilots' room with the black painted discussion which was later con- Ilves next door, and there is a pri- means that his turn is so much
windows.
tinued in the House of Commons, vate passage between the two houses.
WHEN the Foreign Minister is sicarer.
Outside men were grumbling as Poland has never enjoyed the
There is also
given reports for submission they picked their way round the Now It is well known that what leads to the Treasury in Whitehall sequently to the King, these reports a passage which Arat to the Prime Minister and sub- sense of security which Rome
blacked-out airfield When he had happens in that famous room in the This is frequently used by Ministers are locked up in special boxes or nations folt when German might
read my story he said thoughtfully: old Georgian house is kept a strict on such occasions. was oliminated from European
"I couldn't stand your job. I'd be State secret. Every Cabinet MinisTM)
cares and again there are only a politics in 1919 and which the
certain number of keys. Polos might have boon expected to feel because Russin, as well as the
The King. Ilke other high officers every a brief communique Is Issued. More. often there is the bald announcement
LTHOUGH there is no stotle of State, has the key to open all these Central Powers, lost the Great I looked at hla bandages: "Some that there took place "Cabinet A composition of the Foreign despatch cases, and when he is away War. For though each of these people would have nerves doing your Couhell" together with the names of Affairs Committer it is usual for the from London there is a dolly service countries was for a time weakened, job"
Ministers present.
Secretaries of State of the three Ser-for messengers from Whitehall carry- Poland always had to reckon with He didn't think so. "My exello-
vices departments to attend.
Ing the precious containers bound. In two possibilities whose existence ment is purely physical,
But when the Foreign Affairs Com- It's not mitice meet no statement is made,
morocco leather and embossed with It is by no means always the case the Royal Arms and elpher." side by side constituted a paradox. nearly such a strain as a mental
no nomes of Ministers round the that an Ambassador can be present One was that Germany and Russin
And this is Tom's little adven- table are ever divulged.
to make a personal statement before! might some day go to war against ture story.
On occasions like the present the He was flying a new
the Foreign Affairs Committee, Far King is kept hourly
Informed of“ each other: the second was that type warplane that was originally tee are really a
In theory this important commit-from it.
what goes on in the Cabinet discus- they become allled.
might take an opposite course designed without too much con working on behalf of the rest of consultative body The
latter sideration of how its crow should their colleagues. To ravent
For example, when Hitler march-stens by means of a service of pri
vate communications. It often hap- theired. bato Poland, a special meeting of happily evont
occurred; in get out of it in emergency, either event, however,
names might imply that they assum-the committee was called to discura gravity the Prime Minister drives to pens that in matters of particular Poland's in- On the walls of his Flight ofeo ed responsibility for decisions tnicen, a suggestion by the French Govern Buckingham Palace, to see the King' dopondence was jeopardised.
# noticer aaying. Air Ministry whereas, by Die unwritten law of the mont. This suggestion was Through their travail, however, teals with dummies are now going Constitution, in all Cabinet matters municated through the British Am-|
con personally, Poland's people will remember on to and out the best method of there must be the collective responbassador in Paris, Bir Eric Phipps. that history has shown that Po-
In the event of further informa quitting these planes without fall-sibility of all. If a Minister Anda heBut how was that communication tion being required on any subject land's great battles for Indepening into the tail or propellers as you cannot accept tlie opiniona his made and how was it kept such a theco Es
system of private telephone jump clear. "Full details will be colleagues ho must resign.
dend secret? circulated in due course."
lines to the various Government do-
and documents partments, Tom piloted one of these planes, Fitting at his controls with the black these special sub-committees of the Offico is the clearing house for con Commons by means of special trusted: In cases of this kind the Foreign brought to No. 10 or to the House of 'pulated metal blades of propellers Cabinet Council any Minister or fidential communications. Btate messengers of long service.
and
dence have been fought on allon soll This Intest battle will be fought on the wastern front of Germany,
one"
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The Prime Minister can call to
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